Accounts Quotes

• If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

  Doris Day

  Funny Love, Live Life, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

  John Engler

  Research And Development, Percent, Research

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• As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Income, Pay, Study

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• I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

  Paula Poundstone

  Funny, Mother, Money

  "On Location: Women of the Night". Comedy, 1987.

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• Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

  Sarah Palin

  Top Down, Government, Common Sense

  "Palin gets tough on Democrats' health care proposals" by Alex Mooney, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2009.

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• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

  Max Beerbohm

  Giving, Needs, Brilliant

  The Yellow Book, Jan. 1895

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• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

  William Cobbett

  War, Men, May

  William Cobbett (1820). “Cobbett's Political Register”, p.497

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• Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Names, Religion

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• He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

  Laozi

  Easy, Difficulty, All Things

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Games, Darkness

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• Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

  Nathan Deal

  United States, Birth, Illegal

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• I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

  Robert Sheckley

  Real, Hero, Men

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• It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

  William Whewell

  Tests, Theory

  William Whewell (1840). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History”, p.39

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• We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

  Paul McCartney

  Wedding, Army, Bells

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• Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

  Andrew Young

  Political, Saving, Use

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• I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hope, Religious, Voting

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• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Holocaust, Trying, Gold

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

  Joshua Slocum

  Travel, Adventure, Stories

  Joshua Slocum (2007). “Sailing Alone: Around the World”, p.188, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

  Roy Spencer

  Understanding, Majority, Climate

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• Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s

  Fred Savage

  Reading, School, Forget Everything

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

  Leland Stanford

  Taken, Light, Capacity

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

  William Holden

  Uplifting, Age, Want

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• Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

  Patty Murray

  Believe, Long, Goal

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